Chevre, this week’s parsha is Behar (בְּהַר). The parsha starts off with Shemittah or the Sabbatical Year, which happens every 7 years, where Eretz Yisrael gets a Shabbat from work. We then learn about the Yovel or Jubilee Year, every 50 years, where slaves go free and the land returns to it’s original owners (with some details of what goes back and doesn’t based on proximity to a city). The first thing that popped into my head was ownership of S3 buckets. (I know I’m a nerd, I had such joy getting a Lambda working yesterday to delete unused Security Groups). In Nov 2011, S3 introduced the bucket configuration option so that any objects in the bucket automatically become owned by the bucket owner. This alleviated a sticky situation where objects could exist in an S3 bucket, but not be owned or controlled by the bucket owner. Back in Eretz Yisrael, the land returns to the original owners on Yom Kippur. What is interesting is that owning a home in Israel does not make you the owner of the land. The land is leased by the government or JNF for 100 years. Presumably, they’ll extend/renew that lease when it comes due. Shabbat Shalom.